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We Remember
KILLED IN ACTION
RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942
DIED IN SERVICE
Tur Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
GEORGE UTRICH, May 16, 1942
HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942
THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943
MISSING IN ACTION
KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942
WALTER CEASE WILSON, May 9, 1942
HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942
JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943
JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943.
CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943
PRISONERS OF WAR
CLARENCE H.. MORGAN, May 22, 1942
DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, 1942
FRED WESTERMAN, April 20, 1943
798 Free Posts to Soldiers this week.
Editorially Speaking:
“We must beware of trying to build a society in which
nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official,
a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no priv-
ileges.”—Winston Churchill. 3
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We Should Be Proud?
Their ranks dwindling from week to week, only eight
women turned out Monday night at Irem Temple Country
Club to help make surgical sponges for the Red Cross.
Those sponges made from tiny squares of gauze are used
to soak up the blood of wounded American soldiers. Packed
in tidy bundles of 25 along with thousands of other bundles
from other American communities, they are shipped to
every fighting front.
There should be something appealing about such work
for every mother, for every sweetheart of a soldier, for
jE every sister, aunt or cousin. Yet, only eight women turned
out Monday night—two of them from Shavertown. They
did a good job. The eight produced 430 sponges—half a
sponge for each boy from the Back Mountain Region. Half
a sponge for every guy on our mailing list.
If you are not proud of such a record, won’t you be on
hand next Monday night. Free transportation to the club
will be provided if you stop at Kuehn’s Drug Store anytime
before 7:15.
Maybe it't time we quit dedicating honor rolls, display-
ing service flags, attending mothers’ club meetings, praying
for victory and drinking to victory until we do this job for
the fellows who really stop bullets for us.
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to be. There was just one way to find out and that was by
joining the ranks of the sick and wounded at an advance
base. ;
With the consent of the commanding medical officer, but
unknown to anyone else, this marine, while at the front in
the South Pacific, pretended serious illness. Two days lat-
er he was in a hospital on the edge of Henderson Field,
Guadalcanal. A tag on his shirt marked him as a severe
case of peptic ulcer. He received no special treatment. He
was handled exactly as other evacuees were handled in the
plane ambulances out of the combat area.
~~ He was loaded onto a transport plane with seventeen
other sufferers and within a few hours was installed in a
fully equipped base hospital with a staff of 400, each phy-
‘sician selected for preeminence in his field. After reveal-
ing his identity, this inquisitive marine received permis-
sion to stay a while and observe. In his own words, he
saw “‘a number of delicate surgical operations, a wide var-
iety of fracture treatments. Life-sized X-rays taken, teeth
extracted, dental plates made. A group of specialists pre-
scribed and fitted glasses. Physical therapy experts re-
stored the use of injured nerves and muscles.” He also
saw intensive treatment given to serious burns and skin
infections, as well as skin and bone grafts. When he was
through, he realized that centuries of medical learning and
research have been concentrated in one vast, amazingly
efficient effort to prevent the loss of American lives un-
necessarily in this war through lack of medical attention.
The inquisitive marine returned from his self-appointed
mission well satisfied. i
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ILLAR TO POST
Vol. 54, No. 3
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944
6 CENTS PER COPY
By Mas. T. M. B. Hicks, Jz.
There is such a luxurious feeling about the delivery of three tons of an-
thracite coal to the yawning coalbin in the basement. There was no nut
coal over the weekend on account of unforeseen repairs necessary to the
Breaker, and the existing supply shrunk alarmingly. The shovel scraped
bottom, but the cold weather held off.
Under such circumstances, the
roar and rattle of the coal chute is
sheer music. There is always a
temptation to flourish the shovel
and fire the furnace with twice as
“auch fuel as necessary, a sort of a
‘millionaire-for-a-day complex.
When the papers shriek about the
~ coal shortage in the East, picturing
the plight of war-temperature
houses in New York and New Eng-
land, we can shiver in genuine sym-
pathy. There was a time, some
twenty-odd years ago, when we
‘shivered in reality. Anthracite coal
was sold in Boston on what amount-
~ ed to a bootleg basis, with the pre-
cious load going to the highest bid-
der.
One such load, destined for a dif-
ferent household, but not deliver-
able because of a mix-up in the ad-
dress, was shot into our coalbin just
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BUY WAR STAMPS
BUY WAR BONDS
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Four Kunkle
Men Injured
In Collision
Their Automobile
Hits Stalled Truck
Near Tunkhannock
A Kunkle man was seriously in-
jured and three of his neighbors,
members of a Lehigh Valley Rail-
road section crew driving to their
work in Tunkhannock, received lac-
erations and bruises early Monday
morning when their automobile
crashed into the rear end of a
stalled truck about one mile this
side of Wyoming : County Fair
Grounds, in Eaton Township. :
Most seriously injured was Wil-
liam Krause, son of Mrs. Florence
Krause, who lives just this side of
the county line on the old Beaumont
Road, at Kunkle. He is in Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital with a de-
pressed fracture of the skull and se-
vere lacerations over the right eye.
Treated by Dr. O. L. Reynolds, in
Tunkhannock, he was taken to the
hospital in an ambulance and was
still unconscious Monday night. His
condition yesterday was fair.
With him at the time of the ac-
cident were Warren Hoyt, 20, own-
er and driver of the automobile. His
home is just over the Wyoming
County line on the old Beaumont
road. He received lacerations over
the right eye, on the nose and
bruises of the knees.
Two other passengers, Donald
Loomis, 28, Kunkle-Beaumont Road,
and Malcom Goodwin, 29, Beaumont,
also were injured. All were treated
by Dr. Reynolds. Loomis, who is
confined to his home, has a broken
nose and lacerations above the eye.
Morris Lieb, 48, Wilkes-Barre
butcher, who was cranking his
stalled truck at the time of the
accident, escaped with bruises of
the left leg above the knee.
State Police said Hoyt’s «car
crashed . with such force that it
drove the large box of the truck
forward on the chassis. Krause and
Hoyt were thrown against the shat-
tered windshield of their car and
their motor was pushed back
against the front seat. Lieb, police
said, was on his way to Cortland,
N. Y., to buy meat when his truck
stalled.
The local men had only recently
started to work in Tunkhannock and
Monday was Hoyt's first day to!
drive. With the exception of Loomis, |
all are unmarried.
Former Resident
Is Heart Victim
Returned To Dallas
To Visit In October
Harold Shaver, brother of Mrs.
Clyde Veitch, of Mill street, and Mrs.
Clinton Brobst, of Pinecrest avenue,
died at his home, in Plymouth, Ohio,
Friday evening. Apparently in good
health, he was stricken with a heart
attack that evening and died a few
minutes later.
The son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Shaver, of Church street,
he left this territory thirty-five years
ago. He returned twenty-three years
ago to attend his father’s funeral
and hadn’t been in this region since
until last October, when he and his
family visited his sisters; Mrs. Am-
anada Yaple, Mrs. Clarence LaBar,
Mrs. Ben Heft and other old friends
the district.
Surviving are his wife, and three
chldren, Stanley, who was wounded
in action in Sicily, and is now sta-
tioned in England, Eloise, of Mans-
field, Ohio, and Donald, in Ply-
mouth, Ohio. Burial was in Ply-
mouth, Ohio.
Bernard Whitney Is
Honored On Birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Whitney, of
Fernbrook, entertained Saturday
evening to celebrate Mr. Whitney's
birthday anniversary. Red and green
decorations with white snowmen
made effective decorations. Present
were: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elston,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Maury, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Cook, of Kunkle; Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Eckert, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Garris, Mr. and Mrs. Roland
Shoemaker, of Shavertown; Mr. and
Mrs. James Goodman, of Trucksville:
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Davies, Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Davies, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Jones, Mr. and Mrs. | course began January 5 and will
Edgar Nulton and Oscar.
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LETTERS MAILED FROM
WILKES-BARRE REACH
DALLAS 5 DAYS LATER
The speed with which the
postal service funetion§ during
these war days was brought out
Thursday when a Dallas citi-
zen received an important busi-
ness communication mailed last
Saturday at 1:30 p. m., from
Wilkes-Barre. At the same
time he received another let-
ter mailed from® Chattanooga,
Tenn., on January 13, at 8 p.
m. Seven days from Tennessee
and five days from Wilkes-
Barre—that’s a record to shoot
at, but here's the joker. At the
same time the letter from Ten-
nessee was mailed to Dallas,
another from the same person
was mailed to a Wilkes-Barre
newspaper. That letter arrived
in plenty of time so that the
item it contained was published
in a Monday morning newspa-
| per. Apparently the slow-up in
service takes place somewhere
between. the time mail arrives
in the Wilkes-Barre postoffice
and its delivery at Dallas to the
addressee in Dallas.
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Annual Meeting
- College Professor
Will Be Speaker
The 29th Annual Meeting of the
Luzerne County Agricultural Exten-
sion Association will be held in the
| Sam's
Farmers Arrange
spurred to action by the bright red
London 1944 —The Wacs Are There,
a touch of fog, the chimes of.Big
Ben, and, today, the uniformed soldiers of half the nations of the world.
Members of America’s Women’s Army Corps, shown here walking over
famous Westminster Bridge, are a popular addition to the London scene.
Two Boys And A GirL Are Made
Colonels In Tin Cannoneers
Two Dallas boys and a Kingston Township girl were among 28 young-
sters from Luzerne County schools who were awarded the rank of colonel
in Uncle Sam’s Tin Cannoneers at an impressive ceremonial witnessed by
their parents and friends Tuesday night at Luzerne County Court House.
The girl was Myrtle Pascoe, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pascoe,
of Carverton. A Sixth Grade student
in Kingston Towus:hip schools,
Myrtle collected 1080) cans during
recess periods and “fer school and
was runner-up for ¥e high award.
The boys were Robert Monk, 12,
Herbert Brobst, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton Brobst. Both are Sixth Grade
students in Dallas Borough schools.
Robert collected 5,390 cans and Her-
bert 5,350. They started their drive
in December and frequently worked
together, taking their cans to school
in wheelbarrows or on a toy wagon.
When interviewed yesterday, Col-
onel Monk said enthusiastically
over the telephone: “It was a swell
me and our teacher, Mr. Rood,
down to the Coutt House in his car.
Al] the cannoneers sat in the witmess
stand in Judge Valentine’s Court
Room, and their parents sat in the
jury box. Each one of us got up and
told how much fun we'd had collect-
ing cans and how we had collected
them.” Then the colonel interrupt-
ed himself. “I've got 500 more in
now. We're going to try to be Briga-
dier Generals.
they've got a red stripe across the
top, and an American Eagle and
underneath it says Colonel, Uncle
Tin Cannoners. They're
swell.”
While the boys seemed to be
colonels stripes, Myrtle Pascoe said,
she has “three cousins in the army,
Robert Stevenson, Benjamin Earl
and Elmer Smith, and I'm collecting
cans so they and all the other boys
will he home sooner.” Mrytle gave a
lot of credit to an anonymous lady
in Kingston Township who helped
Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. on Thurs-
day, January 27, at 1:30 p. m.
The Association is affiliated with |
the Pennsylvania State College, and
its work consists of demonstrations,
| restings, and miscellaneous assist-
ance, both in Agriculture and Home
| Economics. The influence of Agricul-
tural Extension work cannot be
measured, due to its wide variety of
activities in all lines of agriculture.
i The officers and directors of the
Association like the folks in Lu-
zerne County to feel that the Exten-
sion Organization is an association
that belongs to them and would like
the general public to attend the An-
nual Meeting and participate in its
activities.
At the Annual Meeting there will
be an election of officers, reports of
activities and a very excellent
speaker has been secured in the per-
son of Prof. Earle Moffit, of Pennsyl-
vania State College. Prof. Moffit will
speak on the value of keeping farm
account books and using proper
management on the farm.
The general public is invited and
urged to attend this meeting.
At State College
Fred W. Brokenshire, Jr., is,
among the students enrolled for a
short course in general agriculture
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at Pennsylvania State College. The
her carry many boxes of cans to
school, but who still refuses to tell
| the girlish colonel her name. Mrytle
! invited her to attend the ceremony
at the Court House, “but the lady
had company that night and couldn’t
go.” Mr. and Mrs. Pascoe were
among those in the jury box who
saw Mrytle awarded her stripes.
To Assist Taxpayers
Deputy collectors of the Internal
Revenue Department will be at the
First National Bank, Dallas, on Feb-
ruary 14, 15, and 16 to assist tax-
payers with the prepartion of their
income tax return for the year 1943.
Elizabeth Cooke Is
Hostess to S. S. Class
Miss Elizabeth Cooke was hostess
to members of the Confidence Class
of Idetown Methodist Church last
week. Assisting her were: Mrs. Ted
Perrish; Mrs. Alfred Hadsel, and
Mrs. Kenneth Calkins. Plans were
made to pay the insurance on the
church and to paint the basement.
Present were: Mrs. David Ide, Mrs.
Roy Tryon, Mrs. Stephen Calkins,
Mrs. Helen Calkins, Mrs. Eugene
Kreidler, Mrs. Ada Buttons, Mrs.
Eleanor Cargle, Mrs. Lillian Cave,
Mrs. Leona Moore, Mrs. Glenn Spen-
cer, Mrs. Ralph Welsh, Mrs. Claude
Agnew, Mrs. Hazel Kreidler, Mrs.
Dean Shaver and the hostess.
close February 2.
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son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Monk, and '
program. My Dad took Harold and
the cellar to take in most any day, !
That takes 10,000 |
cans, Oh, yes, about the chevrons, |
‘Farm Auctions
To Be Held At
Robinson Farm
Lanshery Expects
To Have Improvements
Completed Shortly
Following the lead of other com-
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auctions
factors in agricultural life, Lawrence
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Lansbery, of Idetown, has leased
the farm owned by the Robinson
i Estate, near Castle Inn, with an op-
tion to buy, and with the coopera-
{tion of New Jersey interests will
open a weekly farm auction there
in about a month or six weeks.
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The venture is largely experimen-
tal, but the backers are spending
considerable money improving the
large barns, installing box and ex-
hibition stalls for cattle and rebuild-
ing other sections for housing all
types of farm produce. Large plat-
form scales have been ordered and
will be installed just as soon as
they arrive.
Mr. Lansbery, who conducts a
thriving dairy at Idetown, said this
| week when interviewed, his New
Jersey associates can provide an
outlet for any amount of farm pro-
duce and cattle that can not be used
in Jocal or Wyoming Valley mar-
kets. “Eventually,” he said, “it is
our plan to erect a slaughter house
on the farm so that pigs, cows,
sheep and other farm cattle can be
dressed here and shipped out more
‘easily by truck.”
| Mr. Lansbery said he and his as-
sociates had visited auctions in var-
ious parts of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey and had attended the Nich-
olson auction, in Wyoming County
—one of the first established i i
area. He said that he was
pressed with the auctio
liamsport and that the
established here will be patterne
after that.
| Auctions will be held on one day
; a week to start, but if there is a de-
mand for it, Mr. Lansbery said, they
may be held on more than one day.
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Dallas Men Aid
New Industry
Booth Is Engineer
For Rayon Concern
| Nelson Booth, of Lehman avenue,
| engineer for the Luzerne Throwing
{ Company which has obtained a
. lease on the entire second floor and
a part of the first floor of the former
Sheldon plant, of Wilkes-Barre, was
in Georgia this week completing
plans for the shipment of $700,000
worth of special machinery owned
by the Goodrich Tire & Rubber
Company, to the Wilkes-Barre plant.
| Officials of the company are A.
W. and Peter Magagna, who oper-
ate plants in Wyoming and Plains.
The company has substantial con-
tracts with the Goodrich Company
for the throwing of a high tenacity
rayon for use as cords in synthetic
rubber tires.
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Production plans call for throw-
ing 25,000 pounds of rayon per day
and the plant will employ between
300 and 600 persons. Another Dallas
in helping the new industry locate
in Wilkes-Barre is Joseph Mac-
Veigh, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, and chairman of Dallas
Borough Council. Mr. MacVeigh says
the new plant is but one of the
many that will help to keep produc-
tion high in Wyoming Valley after
the war.
Remembers Friends
A number of local friends this
week received braces of beautiful
ringneck pheasant from Robert
Moore, who is with the army air
force at Sioux Falls, S. D. Bob ap-
parently is enjoying good hunting,
judging by the number of pheasants
tied together and shipped back to
Dallas by express.
A; Poultry Show
Among local and nearby poultry-
men who are exhibiting this week
at the 95th Boston Poultry Show
are: Burr Poultry Farm, at Tunk-
hannock, and E. N. Gackenbach, of
Memorial Shrine, Wyoming, R. F. D.
be-s.|a,
man who has played a leading part
Dallas Bond
Drive Is Off
To Good Start
Over $1925 Worth Sold
On First Day By Women
At Dallas Postottice
The Fourth War Loan Drive had
a bang-up start in Dallas Tuesday,
with $1925. in war “bonds being
bought at the.Dallas Senior Wom-
an’s Club booth, in the postoffice,
according to the booth chairman,
Mrs. Nelson Thompson. She says if
returns keep up at that rate, this
district will more than surpass its
quota of $7500 by February 1st.
The booth, open every day from
10 a. m. until noon, and from 1 p.
m. ’til 4, was manned Tuesday by
Mrs. Thompson, Wednesday by Mrs.
Niles White and. Mrs. Charles
and yesterday by Mrs. James
ton. Today, Mrs. Paul Leonard
sell bonds, and tomorrow, Mrs. Joh
Nicholson will have charge. Any
member of the club who would like
to help should call Mrs. Thompson.
Incidentally, Mrs. Thompson was
awarded a service certificate by the
government after the last drive for
selling $2000 worth of bonds by her-
self. This time, white satin pins
with a blue star- will be given those
who sell 10 bonds or more with a
total value of $1000.
Hurt In Fall
At Ice Plant
Pike's Creek Man
Fractures Pelvis
Alfred Rogowski, 21, Pike's -
Creek, an employee of Bryant Ice
Company, Meeker, was painfully in-
j tu
thirty feet.
As the gallery started its descent,
Rogowski, grabbed a stationary lad-
der, but released his grip when a
flying timber struck him in the side.
He fell thirty feet, landing on a pile
of ice fragments. :
Heavy chunks of ice from the
loaded elevator flew in all direc-
tions, but fortunately, Rogowski es-
caped with a slight fracture of the
pelvis and lacerations of the right
side and knee.
He was taken to Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital by his brother-in-law,
Fred Winters, and is under treat-
ment of Dr. H. A. Brown, of Leh-
man. X-ray examination revealed
the broken pelvis.
a stone mason and farmer by trade,
is one of thirty men who have been
helping Mr. Bryant fill his ice houses
for the past month.
According to Mr. Bryant, the har-
vest has been one'of the best in
years, with ice actually thicker than
necessary, but up until recently he
has had difficulty obtaining help,
depending largely on older men.
More Local Men
Enter Service
Contingent Leaves
During February
Among the forty-one *selectees
under the jurisdiction of Draft
Board No. 1 who were declared eli-
gible for duty with the armed forces
at their final physical examinations
in Wilkes-Barre, on Monday, were:
Joseph Lavelle, Dallas, father of two
children, and Robert H. Gross, 18,
member of Dallas Borough High
School Basketball squad.
They are part of a contingent of
Back Mountain men who will leave
early in February for ‘assignment.
Among them are:
Army: Dallas—George W. Phillips,
Norton avenue; LeRue M. Swaze,
Jr.,.R. D. 3; Alvin L. Shaver, Mill
street; Shavertown—William D. Dy-
mond, Main street. :
Navy: Dallas—Joseph Lavelle,
Maplewood Heights; Bernard Pola-
chek, R. D. 3; Ralph E. Snyder, R.
D. 1; Robert H. Grose, Park street.
Shavertown—dJohn C. Youngblood,
East Center street. ?
Others inducted on Saturday
were: Thomas R. Girvan, Dallas;
Edward C. Sword, Trucksville, and
William R. Engler, Shavertown.
Rogowski, father of two children,